Offer to lease a dye-works from the veteran Gaius Valerius Gemellus TM 12573Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

An offer to lease, addressed by Ptollas son of Pasion of the Arsinoite metropolis to Gaius Valerius Gemellus, an honourably discharged veteran and former gymnasiarch, for a two-year lease of a workshop, probably a dye-works, that Gemellus owned. It comes from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum; the terms are lost.

In English machine translation

The reading of the leased property as a dye-works (baphion) is uncertain. Hadrianos was an honorific month name used in Roman Egypt, which places the document in or after the reign of Hadrian.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Lease of a Dyer’s Workshop (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.